Author:  John U’Ren Published 2/14/2019 Plug In America The polar vortex is in full swing and drivers everywhere are finding out their cars don’t love the frigid temperatures. All cars, both gas and electric, use more energy in cold weather, which yields

Authored By: Hightower Pertroleum Company Publidhed : February 13, 2019 OUR HISTORY:  Over 58 Years of Business Excellence Stephen “Steve” Hightower founded Hightowers Petroleum Co. in 1984, continuing a family legacy of entrepreneurism that began in 1957 with the establishment

Author: Jacob Fenston  Published WAMU, FEB 7   Georgetown University is planning to built and buy energy from a solar farm in Charles County under an arrangement with Origis Energy. ehpien / Flickr Georgetown University has a bold plan for cutting greenhouse gas emissions: by later this

A combination of factors usher in a new power landscape Everywhere you look, there are unique dynamics at work. Infrastructures, components and equipment are aging. Weather events and natural disasters cause billions of dollars of infrastructure damage. Cyber threats are

Author: Iulia Gheorghiu@IMGheorghiu   Published: Feb. 6, 2019 Utility Dive Dive Brief: The publicly-owned Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) released on Jan. 23 a draft of its 2019 integrated resource plan (IRP), adding cleaner energy resources to the island’s grid over the next

Author: Melissa Schille Publishd  December  20, 2018    President Donald Trump signed the 2018 Farm Bill Thursday afternoon, signaling the official nationwide legalization of industrial hemp—a moment long-awaited by the cannabis industry. Earlier this year, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell inserted language from his Hemp Farming Act of 2018 into

Author: Eric Sandy and Melissa Schille Published: December 17, 2018 greenhousemag.com Industry stakeholders anticipate increased investment into the industry, as well as massive growth in hemp research, cultivation and sales. Business Congress federally legalized hemp with the Dec. 12 passage of the 2018 Farm

Published by  Skro35 at  February 11, 2017 Ralph talks to Dickson Despommier about “vertical farming,” how to raise farm crops in tall inner-city buildings.  And hemp lobbyist, Eric Steenstra, tells us about his ongoing efforts to convince Congress to make hemp farming legal.

Author:  Community Bulletint:  Published:  July 17, 2018  Press release from the North Carolina Industrial Hemp Association: The Board of the North Carolina Industrial Hemp Association (NCIHA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Blake Butler as Executive Director. Butler, a partner in

Author: EMMA FOEHRINGER MERCHANT  JANUARY 23, 2019  Publisher: GTM “It can’t run red-hot forever.” Industry experts voice questions and concerns about dirt-cheap, shorter-term PPAs. Residual value used to be “the gravy” on top of existing PPA returns. It’s now being treated as

Author: Iulia Gheorghiu@IMGheorghiu : Published Jan. 22, 2019 Utility Dive Dive Brief: The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) last Thursday approved rules for a three-year community solar program, the state’s first and a key component of Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy’s clean

 Location:    United States Capitol Washington D.C.,   February 26, 2019 08:00 AM – February 26, 2019 08:00 PM Join us for the Inaugural American Association of Blacks in Energy (Association) Hill Day Fly-In, February 26, 2019, in Washington, DC. Since

Author: Talib I. Karim Published: February 5, 2019 Set for tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb. 6th, this day-long event offers you a rare opportunity to meet and build relations with Members of Congress (both House and Senate) and their senior aides. And what’s our goal?

Author: DC Office of Planning  Published:February 5, 2019 Part I applications for 2019 now being accepted. Click to download a Part I application. The Historic Preservation Office is now accepting Part I applications for the Historic Homeowner Grant Program. The

Author: Madelynn Conrad: Published January 31,2019 AEE Webinar Overview: With the electric vehicle market experiencing explosive growth, utility regulators are beginning to grapple with vehicle charging and charging infrastructure. What they decide on matters such as rate design and role

Childhood Obesity Prevention Grants More than $400,000 in grants will be awarded to cities that will support and expand childhood obesity prevention programs. Sponsor: American Beverage Association Award Categories: First place in small, medium and large city will be $100,000,

Conference of Mayors President Columbia (SC) Mayor Steve Benjamin at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, AL.  The six-acre site includes 800 six-foot monuments that symbolize thousands of racial terror lynching victims in the United States. About the

US Conference of  Mayors 87th  2019 Winter Meeting January 23 – 24  2019 Washington, D.C. Mayor of Salt Lake City and Chair of the Alliance for a Sustainable Future Jackie Biskupski speaks in San Francisco surrounded by members of the

This bill provides FY2019 appropriations for 3 of the 12 regular FY2019 appropriations bills, this review focuses on the Department of Energy Appropriations Act, 2019. Highlights: • Congressional appropriations for the four renewables (geothermal, solar, water, wind) is $527.5 million:

By Rich Anderson|December 3, 2018|Energy Summary The Conference of Mayors adopted clean air policies in 2017 and 2018 to support cities transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy and success depends on developing enough renewable power production capacity and renewable energy generation.